As technology advances, automation projects today are becoming more and more complicated. Many times engineers are focused on the design of the end application and fail to spend enough time thinking ...

In late 2009, Qatar Petroleum and Hydro Aluminum of Norway opened Qatalum (www.qatalum.com), a smelter plant capable of producing 585,000 metric tons of aluminum per year for the automotive, ...

The most accurate definition of a network management system that I have seen comes from a Cisco training document: “In some cases, it (network management) involves a solitary network consultant ...

When considering a replacement of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), enterprises might want to consider streaming network telemetry as the data collection mechanism for network management ...

We have many guidelines for networking best practices, but what about for network management? I recently reviewed a customer's network in preparation for a network design and refresh. The review would ...

Ethernet is becoming ubiquitous on factory floors. Expectations are, for example, that Ethernet nodes in the process industries will nearly double over the next few years. The market research firm IMS ...

The purpose of the pervasive network is to empower innovation, but networks themselves are also benefiting from recent innovations in analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning. By ...

Storage systems, whether or not coupled with editing systems, MAMs or other production-related data systems within broadcast facilities, are all headed in the direction of IP-based infrastructures.

For network managers to do their jobs at peak efficiency, they need to accumulate as much information as possible about the status of their networks. Traditional network management systems (NMS) or ...

Over the last decade or so, open source development has skyrocketed, and network management software has ridden that wave. Many frustrated IT administrators have turned to free tools to monitor, ...